kidney self care is very important for us. this blogger is to help us keep a health kidney. hope everyone can find something avaible.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
how renal failure is caused
First, renal failure caused by many reasons. Generally includes three aspects:
1, drugs: nephrotoxicity drugs used improperly long-term damage to the kidneys and renal failure after accumulation reaches a certain degree. Such as painkillers, painkillers containing phenacetin, long-term taking damage the kidneys, causing chronic interstitial nephritis, which in turn develop into renal failure; In addition, such as gentamicin drug use undeserved can also cause kidney failure.
2, misdiagnosis: due to renal failure symptoms similar to other system diseases, therefore easy to misdiagnosis, during the process of diagnosis delay treatment, so as to make the continuous deterioration of kidney disease, increased damage to the kidney, resulting in the chronic renal failure. Patients with symptoms of anemia, for example, from the point of view because of the lack of kidney disease common sense, according to anemia, on mild symptoms such as fatigue, fatigue, high blood pressure, night urination much and ignore as well as the economic conditions restrictions delayed illness; From the aspects of the doctor said, satisfied with symptom diagnosis, ignoring the accompanied by complications, and to do related inspection is lead to misdiagnosis, delay treatment, resulting in chronic renal failure.
3 and symptoms due to renal failure is caused by a variety of chronic kidney disease (CKD) development to late kidney function loss of some or all of the pathological state, so like may cause chronic renal failure of some chronic diseases including primary glomerular nephritis, diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive nephropathy, renal interstitial tubular kidney disease, such as polycystic kidney disease is the cause of renal failure.
Second, from the perspective of disease, kidney failure caused by the reasons generally have:
1. Congenital kidney disease, most common to polycystic kidney disease (CKD), the expert points out, this is a kind of hereditary disease, divided into two kinds of explicit and implicit, generally about are dominant, often in the middle before onset;
2. The lesions caused by kidney itself, usually this kind of renal failure happens, in addition to a few people who can recover, most patients are unable to heal, and will continue to deteriorate, silk ball like kidney nephritis, renal silk ball like the inside of the so-called a filter, filter function is useful and good things to stay, not good such as urine and eliminate toxins, when the filter problems, kidney function will not be able to function properly, so it caused the renal failure, how to renal failure caused by clear now;
3 of the cause caused by other diseases and renal failure, is currently the highest percentage of diabetes, lupus, or other red class gout and other diseases, can cause chronic renal failure.
Three, acute renal failure caused by the reasons are as follows:
The first kind is the kidney itself lesions caused by renal failure;
The second is renal failure caused by other organs lesions, such as heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver, or lung hypoxia, there are may cause renal failure
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
what are the self treatment in the patients with kidney disease life
Kidney patients self treatment in life what are many kidney patients want to know is this thing, because we all know that kidney disease is very common in life, for diseases such as kidney disease, in addition to conventional drug treatment, is actually need kidney patients pay attention to all sorts of things in our daily life, the only reasonable care condition, and was able to successfully get rid of kidney disease.
About self therapy in kidney disease patients life what are the problems, kidney disease expert at the following details for us, I hope you attach importance to it:
One, avoid infection: this is a kidney disease itself is an important method of treatment, patients with infections can be seen everywhere in life, such as colds, cough, sore throat, have loose bowels, and these are infection, infection can obviously aggravate, therefore, will try to avoid, but if cold or infection, is good with Chinese herbal preparations, such as compound indigowoad leaf mixture, cold granule, ShuangHuangLian oral liquid, etc., antibiotics can take luo erythromycin, cephalothin, etc., 4 if heavier, please timely to hospital for treatment.
Second, rest, avoid overworked, tired can make kidney disease resistance to further reduce, so patients should actively avoid overworked yourself, this is very important, because overworked (include labor, demanding and lowe) can reduce the body immunity, aggravating illness, so need to have a rest, but also no need to stay in bed, can be in the general activity and light manual, with not feeling tired.
Five, timely review: patients in the treatment process to ensure that their own review work, less kidney disease tend to symptoms, signs, don't feel alone to judge the condition of light and heavy, improvement, deterioration, or whether the recovery, or whether the relapse, only after the corresponding inspection carries on the comprehensive analysis, can accurately judge, so it is necessary to regularly or not regularly review, in order to avoid in imperceptible in gradually progression, lead to serious consequences.
Above is the "what" self therapy in kidney disease patients life related introduction, kidney disease patients in the usual life itself some important methods of treatment, to prevent kidney disease have very good effect, repeatedly so kidney disease patients at the time of treatment to play their own initiative, achieve the timely and effective treatment.
Summer high temperature, how to deal with renal colic symptoms
Suddenly waist pain, such as knife heave, and with the reflection of groin pain, painful urination, bloody urine, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms, it is the summer high temperature and a high incidence disease, renal colic.
Renal colic love hit men in young adults
College students a few days ago in the hot sun Yang play basketball for a day, usually his body strong, the morning on the waist pain was sent to the hospital for treatment. Through inspection, so it's the end ureter appeared a lot of crystals. Similar patients, hospital emergency department the day to receive a dozen, and mostly in the form of 20 to 50 years old male youths. Owing to the high summer temperatures, people sweat or blow air conditioning, over a long period of time will loss a lot of water. If at this time to drink water less, urine concentration, can lead to human metabolites in urine concentration increased, thus forming the crystals blocking urine channel, causing renal colic.
Kidney stones patients also should drink more water
According to introducing, high temperature in summer is also the period of kidney stones, the pathogenesis and renal colic basic same. More patients characterized by sudden on one side of the waist and abdomen pain, pain when restlessness, kubla khah dripping wet, can appear even vomiting and other symptoms. He suggested that in the near future once appear, waist and abdomen pain to inspection to the hospital in time, can go to do B to exceed or filming.
Both in prevention of stones, and prevention of renal colic need drinking lots of water. To increase urine excretion of urine diluted crystal salt in the body, reduce its concentration, can effectively prevent calculous purposes, can also help you to have stone formation of dissolved, eduction. In general, the daily drinking water shall be not less than 2.5 liters, so as to ensure the daily discharge of urine in more than two liters.
Patients should eat less tomato and spinach
In addition, because tomatoes, spinach, asparagus and oxalic acid content is higher in nuts kind of food, easy to generate calcium oxalate stones, as a result, low back pain in the summer season, should also be appropriate to reduce the food intake. And another major cause for uric acid calcium stones, commonly occur in patients with high uric acid hematic disease group, the group should contact less beer in young adults, thick soup, seafood high purine diet.
Monday, July 29, 2013
nephrotic syndrome patients should pay attention to diet
Along with the rapid development of the society, people on diet and health do not pay attention to, in recent years, there are a lot of people were plagued by the disease,
Kidney disease is a kind of in the history of mankind a big disease, kidney disease treatment, must first start from the diet, slowly improving.
1, low fat diet intake: patients in the diet attention should be paid to low fat food choices, and hyperlipidemia are common for nephrotic syndrome, the blood viscous, which can cause hardening of the arteries and glomerular damage, and hardening, etc. So supplement the protein and edible oil, less greasy food, give priority to with light diet.
2, high protein diet intake: hypoalbuminemia due to nephrotic syndrome, a large number of plasma protein from the eduction in urine, to reduce human proteins in the protein malnutrition state, make liver albumin synthesis capacity increase, if can give enough protein and calories diet, patients are the daily albumin synthesis of 22.6 grams, thus can effectively mitigate the negative nitrogen balance and improve the low serum albumin leels, generally advocates patients daily protein intake should be 1 g/kg body weight, combined with the daily loss of protein in his urine.
3, relevant complementary intake of trace element: nephrotic syndrome patients, because of the glomerular basement membrane permeability increased, in addition to the loss of large amounts of protein in urine, also lost at the same time combine with proteins of some trace elements and hormones, the body of calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron and other elements of the relative lack of, so should give appropriate supplement. Can eat commonly contain rich vitamins and trace elements of vegetables, fruits, grains, etc shall be added.
4, sodium salt, and water intake: due to the highly edema must limit the intake of water daily, including intravenous fluids and water intake and water intake should be less than urine. Edema should be into a low salt diet in order to avoid aggravating oedema, is no more than 2 g salt intake daily. Patients should be disable pickled food, use less monosodium glutamate and alkali.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
real harmness of high blood uric acid
Blood uric acid is one of the most common physical examination project. Many elevated uric acid abnormal found in physical examination (high uric acid hematic disease), but did not add value because no self-conscious symptom.
Many doctors don't attach importance to high uric acid hematic disease. Because practice show that only about 10% of high uric acid hematic disease will develop into the "gout". Gout to joints happened all of a sudden severe pain as the main clinical characteristics, often involving the foot, ankle, knee, wrist, finger joints in areas such as. Pain can alleviate by oneself, but will break out repeatedly
Gout is the basic pathological basis of abnormal blood uric acid concentration increases (i.e., high uric acid hematic disease). Abnormally elevated uric acid concentration in the blood to a certain extent (> 420 umol/L, 70 mg/L), uric acid concentrations for "supersaturated" state, will form the uric acid salt crystallization, and deposition in the foot, ankle, knee, wrist, finger joints and other parts, the resulting sharp unbearable pain (analogous to wound top sa salt) in general. And once the uric acid salt precipitation, blood uric acid concentration is decreased, so the uric acid salt precipitate not continuously, after being soft tissue tolerance uric acid salt, the pain can reduce or disappear. But the cause is not in addition to, when the concentration of blood uric acid accumulation reaches "supersaturated" again, uric acid salt precipitation again, cause recurrent pain.
High uric acid hematic disease mechanism is not yet fully elucidated, except a handful of patients associated with hereditary enzyme defect, think at present, most of the patients is associated with lifestyle.
Except the gout and high uric acid hematic disease also increases the risk of diseases of the cardiovascular system
. Therefore, you must give attaches great importance to high uric acid hematic disease. In daily life, should take the following measures:
1. Avoid high purine food, mainly animal internal organs, most seafood and fish, beer, meat and so on, as far as possible choose milk, eggs, low purine food such as grain, vegetables and fruits. But must pay attention to the long-term low purine food cause protein nutrition is not enough, we should pay attention to limit the extent of the high protein food and the time, do not blindly kept under strict control. On the premise of avoiding high purine, adequate intake of protein, which means that the recipe to have a moderate amount of milk and eggs.
2. Avoid obesity, have obese people to lose weight, but avoid excessive hunger (gout).
3. Reduce the amount of fat intake and fat for energy.
4. Eat less sweet food and sugar, don't eat honey.
5. Choose alkalescent food more, such as vegetables, fruits, milk, etc., help to uric acid excretion. Promoting uric acid excretion is more effective method is to use sodium bicarbonate (baking soda or soda water).
6. Every day more than 1500 ~ 2000 ml of drinking water, can choose plain boiled water, mineral water, light tea, juice, etc., mineral water, pure water and carbonated drinks is not the best choice. An alkaline water helps to uric acid excretion.
7. Alcohol, especially beer. Tea and coffee is harmful or beneficial for uric acid excretion, at present did not form a unified understanding.
8. Appropriately increase exercise or physical activity, but avoid strenuous exercise and physical activity (gout).
9. To stop taking aspirin, because aspirin increases blood uric acid levels (must also consult a doctor
Why patients with Diabetes Mellitus have sweet taste in mouth
Having sweet taste in mouth must attract many diabetics’ concern, because this sweet taste in their mouth is maddening. Finding the cause is able to help them to get correct treatment. Here, this article will help these people explain this question in detail.
Sweet taste in mouth is one of Diabetes complication. Even though diabetics don’t eat any sugar, they may have a sweet taste. How does Diabetes Mellitus cause sweet taste in mouth? There may be several reasons.
1. High blood glucose or high blood sugar
Not controlling blood sugar effectively will make diabetics have sweet tastes in mouth, because the amount of glucose in spittle elevates as the blood sugar increases. Then they will have sweet tastes no matter what they eat. In addition, poor control of blood sugar can also make the body can’t use the sugar as a fuel source, because there is no enough insulin. Then too much sugar will build up in the body on one hand to produce sweet tastes in mouth, on the other hand to aggravate diabetics’ condition. Therefore, to make this sweet taste disappear, they need to change the dose of their insulin or get some other treatments.
2. Some medicines
Some medicines may also cause sweet tastes in mouth, because these medicines can affect the taste sense and smell sense directly. Therefore, patients with Diabetes Mellitus should also pay attention to medicine use. Make sure that consult your doctor before using or stopping any medicine.
3. The digestive system disorder
Diabetes Mellitus can also cause digestive system disorder, and then ptyalin will be produced more. High ptyalin can make the starch converted into maltose rapidly, so sweet tastes will occur in the mouth.
how to treat minimal change disease
The cause of human suffering from kidney disease is minimal change disease, according to the authoritative expert analysis, was part of the human kidney function damage and on the other hand, exhibited, authoritative experts said, for kidney disease is minimal change disease, patients should cause enough attention, timely treatment is the key, then, minimal change disease (kidney disease how to treat? Look at how authoritative experts said.
Nephropathy is minimal change disease (also known as lipid renal disease, it is one of the most common disease of the nephrotic syndrome. Adult accounts for about 15% ~ 20%. About kidney disease because the hair cause of disease is minimal change disease, characterized by loss of the glomerular capillary negatively charged due to the damaged glomerular charge barrier, so the selective proteinuria. Under normal circumstances, a little day by day the urine protein, which is about 150 mg. Serious 24 hours urine protein may be more than 40 g, a large amount of protein leakage at this time were the main clinical manifestations, and become the important factors influencing the prognosis. Therefore, on how to control proteinuria, search for etiology, reduce relapse become the main points of the treatment.
At present, about kidney disease is minimal change disease, is not no medicine can cure, traditional hormone therapy can be adopted, such as hormone therapy there are still a lot of proteinuria, immune inhibitors can also be used. But the hormone and immune inhibitor therapy has many side effects, and no matter how does not reduce its recurrence. After investigation, the recurrence of such patients accounted for about 50% of the total total incidence, recurrence of its current or a hormone dependence (refers to the need to increase the dose of hormone to maintain control proteinuria).
Minimal change disease (kidney disease, the pathological type of overall prognosis is good. New renal fibrosis diagnosis standard thinks this is minimal change disease only in the inflammatory reaction stage, the kidney fibrosis has just started, glomerular basic intact, all through effective system anti-inflammatory, anticoagulation, expanding blood vessel, degradation and other measures, can effectively prevent renal fibrosis continue to progress. While on treatment, the use of drug therapy can achieve certain curative effect, but authoritative experts recommend that patients use the security methods is more appropriate to treat kidney disease caused by various disease.
Why kidney patients nausea and vomiting
Kidney disease, common symptoms are nausea and vomiting, which is caused by digestive system dysfunction. So kidney disease patients is necessary
Solution, why will appear the symptoms of nausea and vomiting. Below will introduce you to what appear nausea and vomiting.
1. the hyponatremia. Kidney disease (CKD) in serum sodium can be caused by various reasons below 130 millimoles per liter (130 meq/l), such as (1) water retention in the body or excess fluids and cause dilution hyponatremia. (2) avoid salt for a long time. (3) metabolic acidosis, extracellular sodium transferred to the cells. (4) some interstitial renal diseases, renal tubular reabsorption of sodium, sodium by urine increased. 5. Long-term inappropriate application of diuretics, etc. Hyponatremia patients can appear nausea and vomiting.
2. nephritis, nephropathy after cyclophosphamide treatment, patients often nausea, vomiting, now is this drug caused damage to the liver function, from the medical history and detection in patients with liver function indicators, can make the right judgment. Disable cyclophosphamide, liver meritorious service is gradually restored, nausea and vomiting also disappear.
3. the metabolic acidosis. Patients with chronic renal failure due to the acidic metabolites can't normal delivery, hence formed accumulation body acidosis. By detecting the blood pH value and blood carbon dioxide binding force to the degree to which acidosis. Patients can appear when acidosis sigh breath, nausea and vomiting.
4. the nephrotic syndrome, due to the loss of large amounts of protein, hypoalbuminemia, patients not only body appears edema, and also appears edema, gastrointestinal tract digestive function disorder, visible clinical manifestations of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. TCM holds that resistance in the wet muddy, gastric estrangement. Once the urine volume increased, the gastrointestinal edema eased, nausea and subsequently reduce the disease.
5. in chronic renal failure, the urea urea enzyme in gastrointestinal bacteria decomposition of ammonia, stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa inflammation or ulcer; Uremic toxins, especially in molecular substances affect cell metabolism, leading to cell edema; Renal impairment affect gastric secrete element of excretion and the deactivation, forming high low stomach acid gastric secrete element etc, all can lead to digestive function disorder, nausea and vomiting.
Through clinical observation, the weight of the digestive system symptoms, and the degree of renal damage and urea nitrogen values of high and low, basic is the same. Thus it can be seen that these symptoms is the most main is the treatment for kidney disease,
Thursday, July 25, 2013
stem cell to treat end stage kidney failure
Acute or chronic renal failure patients with implementation of stem cell transplantation is a kind of very effective method, because stem cells are a kind of infinite value, self-replicating, multidirectional differentiation of the primitive cells, repair damaged cell, it has the greatly strengthened repair damaged cells into the patient's body function, therefore, stem cell transplantation and strong kidney repair ability. Stem cell therapy for diabetic nephropathy?
Treated by stem cell transplantation on the one hand to repair the damaged maximum, lesions in the kidney cells, block the renal fibrosis process, reduce serum creatinine, relieve renal anemia and renal complications such as hypertension, renal edema, protein and occult blood indicators to can be significantly decreased even turn. Also can extend the dialysis time interval, and even get rid of dialysis, and regulate and control the primary disease.
Late namely uremia period of kidney failure, implementation of stem cell transplantation therapy is also feasible. Because stem cell therapy as an auxiliary means to make as much as you can get repair damaged cells, save the remaining kidney cells, renal function. Is happening at the same time also want to cooperate with other means of reverse pathological changes of cells, and prolong the interval of dialysis, improve disease and delay the process of renal failure, improve survival quality of patients. Stem cell therapy for diabetic nephropathy? Effect how?
Stem cells, however, is the most obvious curative effect on other uremia complications, such as acid-base imbalance, fluid imbalance in the metabolic and endocrine disorders, insomnia, nausea, vomiting, cardiovascular symptoms, etc. Experts reached studies and clinical trials, stem cell transplant is a safe, non-toxic side effects, and in the case of don't know the exact mechanism of disease development also can undertake treatments
Self-replicating and multi-directional differentiation potential of stem cell is a primitive cell, are the origin of the body cells, stem cells that form the original human body all kinds of tissues and organs. Under certain conditions, stem cells can differentiate into various functional cells or tissues and organs, the medical profession called "the multi-purpose cell"
Stem cell therapy is the healthy stem cells transplantation via intravenous injection to the patient or his body, in order to achieve the function of diseased cells or restore normal cells and tissues for the purpose. Stem cell therapy as to inject new vitality, fundamentally effective methods for treatment of many diseases.
Because stem cells are immature cells an undifferentiated, its cell surface antigen expression is very weak, the patient's own immune system to this kind of undifferentiated cell recognition ability is low, is unable to determine their properties, so as to avoid the cause of organ transplantation immune rejection and allergic reactions etc., make it very safe allograft transplantation of neural stem cells. Stem cell therapy for diabetic nephropathy? Effect how?
In clinical research, through plenty of clinical case studies have shown that stem cell therapy in addition to a handful of patients have a mild fever, headache, no serious adverse reaction occurred, shows that its clinical application are safe
could diabetic nephropathy patients can take birth control pills
Diabetic nephropathy is a serious kidney disease, if let the illness grew worse, may cause more severe uremia, which cause great burden for yourself and your family.
Believe that fear of pregnancy women in diabetic nephropathy patients to choose to take the pill for birth control, but don't know often taking birth control pills may make the condition of diabetic nephropathy is more serious. Here I would like to introduce you to the birth control pill in patients with diabetic nephropathy.
Non-diabetic nephropathy participants not taking oral contraceptives increased renal plasma flow "mild", by contrast, taking the oral contraceptive subjects without diabetes nephropathy renal plasma flow rate significantly increased. In addition, as might be expected, not taking oral contraceptives, degree of diabetic nephropathy in patients with renal plasma flow increases more significantly, but on the pill for diabetic nephropathy patients vasodilator response is one of the most obvious.
Some women don't want to pregnancy, often eat the pill. Little imagine, the pill can promote the deterioration of diabetic nephropathy, diabetic nephropathy of the harm of human body is constantly grow. Diabetic nephropathy of women at the same time, their blood viscosity was higher than the average person, plus the pill, can increase the blood coagulability, and makes an increased risk of cerebrovascular disease. So when women with diabetes nephropathy, best with birth control pills, but it is advisable to switch to other birth control methods.
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Hope women you should be careful when taking birth control pills in patients with diabetic nephropathy, to avoid further deterioration of diabetic nephropathy, prevent other unnecessary loss. If friends want to learn other knowledge of diabetic nephropathy, we will help you solve it. Friends here, wish the patient back to health at an early date.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
which fruit and vegetables should diabetic nephropathy eat
Fruit and vegetable nutrition is rich, but for patients with diabetic nephropathy need careful treatment, avoid excessive intake of glucose aggravating illness, so what diabetes kidney disease should eat fruits and vegetables? "This small make up to summarize a few fruits and vegetables, reference for diabetic nephropathy patients.
1, pumpkin, regulating blood sugar of diabetic nephropathy
Pumpkin contains trigonelline, sucrose, pentosan and mannitol, a pumpkin instead of part of the staple food, the clinical visible blood sugar drop without hunger. Also somebody USES pumpkin powder 30 g/day as adjuvant treatment of diabetes, to improve the symptoms of diabetes. Reported in the literature, diabetes patients ate pumpkin is reasonably good.
2, mulberry leaf, mulberry to regulate blood sugar
We always here many reports of mulberry leaf, mulberry have auxiliary therapy effect of diabetes. It has to regulate blood sugar function for mulberry leaf total polysaccharide, but the mechanism is unknown. With mulberry leaf tea, drink for a long time with no adverse impact on condition that the conditional patients might as well try.
3, tremella to insulin have hypoglycemic activity
Is also called the white fungus, containing rich in dietary fiber, and low heat. Reported in recent years, tremella contains rich tremella polysaccharide, the insulin had significant effect on the hypoglycemic activity. Tremella polysaccharide in animal studies have shown that in the form of ligands modification affect insulin, insulin in the body of the function of time can be extended from 3 ~ 4 hours to 8 to 12 hours. In addition, white fungus of dietary fiber in delay the effect of blood sugar to rise.
4, balsam pear sugar effect is obvious
Experts research, balsam pear powder into tablets treatment of 29 cases of diabetes. The postprandial 2 after treatment. 5 hours of blood sugar and 24 hours urine sugar decreased very significantly, the total effective rate was 97.3%, 65.5% were markedly improved. Main side effects of abdominal pain, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal reflect.
watermelon and iced watermelon, kidney disease paitents
Although watermelon taste delicious, but not everyone is advisable. First of all, renal insufficiency is unfavorable feed more, lest increase burden of the kidney. Second, fruit sugar, diabetes patients should not eat more. Finally, watermelon is the product of cold, to eat many easy injury taste, so taste xu han, indigestion, it is advisable to eat less. Don't eat watermelon cold early, or can make a cold aggravating or prolong the recovery time.
Many people like to put the watermelon to refrigerate. In fact, doing so is not good, watermelon nutrition will be lost after refrigeration. Room temperature when the watermelon contains beta - carotene and lycopene is 40% and 139%, higher than iced watermelon, and these nutrient elements is have anti-cancer effect of antioxidant components. Iced watermelon is rich in nutrients, far less than under the room temperature storage of watermelon. After picking watermelon can still produce nutrients, but a sharp cooling process will slow nutrition, thus reduce nutrients. Watermelon belong to the moisture content more fruit, frozen for a long time can make the water evaporated, take nutrients. Ice of harvests may also make gastrointestinal function, gastrointestinal dysfunction diarrhea symptoms. Contains anaerobic bacteria in the refrigerator, over time, the number of anaerobic bacteria, will be more and more attached to the cut watermelon pulp, destroys the watermelon contains vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
proper salt,vegetable&fruit and meat for renal insufficiency patients
1, how to limit salt intake, kidney disease patients
No matter what kind of kidney disease, as long as there is edema, you have to limit salt intake. Significant edema, while daily limit should be below 1 g, serious or even require salt-free diet. To be reduced the volume of urine protein, edema, relieve, salt can be appropriately increased, but also should be no more than 5 g a day. The purpose of low salt diet is to reduce the water and sodium retention in the body, make the edema subsided and blood pressure to drop.
1 ~ 2 grams of salt per day don't have to put in dish, because in the dish also basically tasteless, to change the way. In the morning can be sweet; Noon to 1 g of salt in dab, dip in with food to eat. Intake in this way, 1, total amount, but it does taste salty, can stimulate appetite. But note that a low salt diet, can't eat pickles, pickled vegetables, preserved szechuan pickle and salty bread, Fried dough sticks, etc, also can't eat laver, rape, spinach, fennel, celery, lily flower, radish, etc.
2 how to eat vegetables, fruit, kidney disease patients
Kidney patients, if generally normal urine output, no less urine and kidney failure, should eat more green vegetables, fruits, in order to supply adequate vitamin. As patients reduced the volume of urine, especially when less than 500 ml per day, is to selectively eat vegetables and fruit. Because potassium compared commonly rich in vegetables, fruits, less urine and kidney disease patients, the serum potassium levels are elevated.
Fruits, vegetables and cereals are foods that are rich in potassium, potassium higher fruit is watermelon, banana, pineapple, mango, jujube, cantaloupe, etc; Vegetables contain potassium high, etc. In oliguria stage kidney patients should eat less, if after the use of diuretics, potassium is low, can eat, fresh fruit juices contain rich potassium, in particular, can be used as oral potassium supplement.
Hami melon is rich in potassium, every 100 grams of meat contains about 250 milligrams of potassium. Potassium ion content is exorbitant, can contribute to heart disease, a slow heart beat (bradycardia) and ery low conduction block, such as life threatening. Renal failure, glomerular filtration rate decreased, renal tubular function decreased, the potassium metabolism disorder, not timely excess potassium eduction body outside, result in hyperkalemia. Therefore, patients with renal failure, unfavorable eat hami melon.
3, do not eat what meat renal failure patients
Renal failure patients, should limit the intake of protein. Because of its some nitrogen metabolism in the body can produce waste, and through the kidney with the urine. Kidney failure (oliguria stage), reduced the volume of urine, impact of waste discharge, the accumulation of waste are prone to uremia. Such as ham, tian chicken, chicken, pigeon, quail and finches meat meat food contain higher protein, both is unfavorable feed more.
how to manage well salt intake for kidney patients
Nutrition society suggested that healthy adults daily salt intake of 6 g (including soy sauce and other salt in food), and the daily intake of more than 12 grams, some places even higher. And many people are hard to change heavy flavors of diet habit, taste and sensitivity will be obviously decreased with age, prefer to put more salt and soy sauce. That many people will ask, can not to put less salt or salt in the food delicious? Actually, we can adjust in the way of cooking methods, can be also obtained the health food.
1 didn't put salt, vegetables to the pot. Before food dish up cooked a small amount of soy sauce flavor or less put some salt, the salt stays on the surface of food, your tongue will feel salty. And at this point, the salt into the interior of the food, the quantity under the same salinity salt are naturally reduced.
2, more vinegar, less sugar. Acidity can reinforce saltiness, much put some vinegar feel salty too pale. Dishes with lemon juice and ketchup are also has the same effect. Acid can promote digestion, increase appetite, increase mineral absorption rate, reduce the loss of vitamins, fully staffed. Sweet will hide salt, a little salt can highlight the sweet taste of sugar, so, charged with salt, it is best to avoid eating dishes for sugar.
3, limit salt seasoning. In addition to salt and soy sauce, we still have a lot in life contain salt seasoning. Such as chicken, and monosodium glutamate the brothers with them, will be less salt. There are all kinds of sauce is salty foods, such as sweet bean sauce, bean paste, sauce, sweet chilli sauce, etc., such as mayonnaise, salt as much as 12% - 15%.
4, limit salty food. Shrimp skin ingredients, dried shrimp, mussels, pickles, ham, sausage and preserved food, ingredients contains salt, seasoning will carefully, carefully taste, and then make a decision whether to add salt.
5, the use of low-sodium seasoning. Currently on the market, low salt, seasoning is very rich. Such as low salt soy sauce, salt, sauce, salt pickles, etc are sold. Might as well how similar products, the choice of fresh taste is full-bodied, salty light flavor. Using low sodium salt, is a good way to reduce salt.
How to limit salt intake of patients with kidney disease
No matter what kind of kidney disease, as long as there is edema, you have to limit salt intake. Significant edema, while daily limit should be below 1 g, serious or even require salt-free diet. To be reduced the volume of urine protein, edema, relieve, salt can be appropriately increased, but also should be no more than 5 g a day. The purpose of low salt diet is to reduce the water and sodium retention in the body, make the edema subsided and blood pressure to drop.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Uremia patients with anuria?
Uremia patients with anuria?
Aiming at the problem, experts said: when a kidney disease the patient from developing into uremia, chronic kidney disease of kidney function has been badly damaged, so the kidney excretion function have been falling, if there is no urine, the kidney function has basic is lost, so, uremia patients with anuria? Listen to the experts of concrete is introduced.
Patients should know uremia anuresis of two kinds of reasons, and targeted therapy.
Anuresis phenomenon: if the short-term rapidly enter the oliguria or anuria, indicated that the disease in the acute stage, there must be a cause of acute progress of etiology, should actively look for slow progress factor in urgent, decisive measures to treat and reverse the disease, restore the urine output, to ensure the safety of life, could not only restore of urine, creatinine will fall at the same time, even get rid of dialysis.
Renal fibrosis has fully into the scar formation, and has formed a scrap renal, function has completely lost and cause no urine, whole depend blood purification to sustain life. Patients with this type of application of micro Chinese medicine purpose, make sure that the important viscera function, ensure the safety of life, improve the quality of life and survival, prolong the survival period, kidney transplant well preparation for the future. This period by blood purification alone is can't completely solve all problems, but also with traditional Chinese medicine therapy.
When kidney disease the patient from developing into uremia, chronic kidney disease of kidney function has been badly damaged, so the patient can appear many serious complications, such as edema, hypertension, renal anemia, skin itching, abnormal urine will be clear at the same time, there will be no serious uremia patients of urinary symptoms. For this, the western medicine treatment, can use dialysis and renal transplantation therapy.
Causes of Insomnia (Sleeplessness) of End Stage Kidney Failure Patients
Causes of insomnia (sleeplessness) of end stage kidney failure patients:
(1) Physiological cause
End stage kidney failure patients with sleep disorder, cause insomnia, the mechanism of factors is not yet clear, excessive daytime sleep is one of the reasons. Some scholars believe that sleep apnea syndrome and urine toxin accumulation in the body, metabolic acidosis, resulting in breathing during sleep is not stable.
And long-term dialysis for End stage kidney failure patients with sleep disorder that accounts for 57% to 80%, sleep apnea syndrome and restless legs syndrome is several times the general population, incidence of persistent peritoneal dialysis patients complained of difficulty falling 74.5%, easy to wake up, wake up 68%, with 77.1% of sleep in the day. These abnormal sleep on quality of life and health have significant negative impacts, have data to show that this kind of patients with sleep disorders can lead to increased mortality.
(2) Emotion cause
Emotions cause insomnia patients have two: one is the patient of diseases is not thin, easy to appear difficult to control the anger and angry mood extreme symptoms; For insomnia patients, 2 it is lack of correct understanding, further affect sleep, appetite, such as "excessive thinking, internal lesion caused by overexertion glove", over time, insomnia, no signs of improvement, heart palpitations, dizziness, the symptom such as irritable don't light the heavy. The deterioration of the condition and further cause the patients repeatedly uneasy, worried, lived and even that, form a vicious circle. External stimuli can cause intense, repeated, mental stress and mood swings for a long period of time, the brain cortex inhibitory and excitatory process conflict, the cerebral cortex function disorder, is not conducive to sleep.
End stage kidney failure patients with widespread depression, chronic fatigue, and insomnia. Patients with End stage kidney failure, the endocrine system will be severely disrupted, and the pain, which can easily lead to insomnia patients phenomenon, at the same time, the heavier stress also increased in patients with the symptoms of insomnia. Therefore, End stage kidney failure patients should calmly in the face of, set up the confidence of conquer disease, because too much thought pressure, will only make the patient more worse and worse.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Foods for Patients with High BUN Levels
BUN levels along with creatinine levels can tell how well your kidneys are functioning.High BUN levels mean reduced renal function and kidney damage.Some foods should be avoided with high BUN levels.
Urea nitrogen is the byproduct of proteins in body and is filtered out by kidneys normally.A normal range for blood urea nitrogen is generally 8 to 24mg/dL for adult men(2.86 to 8.57mmol/L) and 6 to 21mg/dL(2.14 to 7.50 mmol/L) for adult women.Because of compensatory capacity of kidneys,BUN levels do not increase untile more than half of renal function is lost.
High BUN levels indicate serious kidney damage.Therefore,the patients not only should avoid foods which can raise BUN levels,but also should eat more foods which can improve renal function.
Foods to protect and improve renal function
Fruits and vegetables
Fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants which can help neutralize free radicals and protect kidney cells.Such fruits include grapes, cranberries and blueberries; vegetables include fennel,beets,spinach,string beans and asparagus.The patients should make sure the fruits and vegetables are low in potassium.
Olive oil
Olive oil is a great source of oleic acid, an anti-inflammatory fatty acid. It can help relieve the inflammation in kidneys to slow kidney fibrosis process.
Foods to avoid with high BUN levels
Foods loaded in proteins
For Kidney Disease patients with high BUN levels, the patients are recommended to limit how much protein they eat.This is because foods high in protein can increase the production of urea nitrogen.Increased levels of urea nitrogen can make the kidneys work harder and may cause more kidney damage.
High-sodium foods
High-sodium foods should be avoided with high BUN levels.Too much sodium can cause swelling and raise blood pressure.This can damage kidneys more.
Phosphorus and potassium
Regular blood work test should be done for patients with kidney problem. If phosphorus and potassium levels are higher than normal,the patients should avoid eating foods high in phosphorus and potassium.
The above are some recommended foods and some foods to avoid with high BUN levels. As the illness condition varies from person to person, an individualized diet is needed based on your condition.
How Much Protein to Consume as A CKD Patient
Protein is necessary nutrient for people.However,the protein waste products can cause stress on kidneys.Therefore, CKD patients are often faced with the dilemma of having to limit protein intake. How much protein to consume as a CKD patient? What are the good sources of protein?
A general diet for CKD patients should be low in protein.However,as the kidney damage degree and overall condition vary from individual to individual, it is better to calculate how much you can consume in your case.
*CKD stage 1-2: 0.8g/kg per body weight/d
*CKD stage 3-5: 0.6g/kg per body weigh/d
For example,if you are in stage 4 CKD and weigh 65kg,you should consume 0.6*65=39g each day.
As vegetable proteins can produce more wastes, it is a wise choice to add more high-quality in your diet. So you should reduce the consumption of vegetable proteins like rice, bean products, oatmeal.High-quality proteins include milk, egg, fish, poultry product and lean meat.
Here are some examples of protein foods and how many ounces of protein they provide.
Beef steak (4 ounces)
Chicken drumstick (2 ounces)
Egg (one = 1 ounce)
Egg whites (two = 1 ounce)
Fish fillet (3 ounces)
Half chicken breast (3 ounces)
Hamburger patty (3 ounces)
Pork chop (3 ounces)
Shrimp (18 to 20 medium = 3 ounces)
Soy burger (2 to 3 ounces)
Another way to estimate protein is using your hand as a guide. The size of the palm of your hand is approximately 3 ounces. The size of your thumb is about 1 ounce.
The above is just some general suggestions on dietary protein consumption for people with CKD.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
How to Scientifically Treat Chronic Kidney Disease
It′s a long term ordeal for both patients and their families when someone gets chronic kidney disease, therefore, scientifically loot at it and treat it is the only right way. Patients should pay attention to the following points in thoughts.
1. To be optimistic.
Don′t think too much after getting chronic kidney disease, much pressure will decrease your immunity. Keep optimistic and actively receive treatment, believe your disease could be controlled or even cured.
2. Treat chronic kidney disease seriously.
Some patients is not pessimistic, but they don′t keep doctor′s advices and medication principles in their minds. They don′t seriously treat taking medicines or review and do things according to their wills. This would lead disease which could be controlled to get worse. Therefore, chronic kidney disease patients should not be careless about their own condition.
3. Do things according to your present condition.
After getting chronic kidney disease, patients may receive limitation on activities, diet and work, and even may need others′ care on life, but all these are normal phenomena. Patients should not force themselves to do what they did before. They should do things according to their present conditions to avoid fatigue.
4. To be considerate.
Getting chronic kidney disease, you would bear big mental stress, so do your families. Do not lose temper or get angry with them, otherwise, it would make them anxious or worried. It′s also good for your recovery if you care about your families and make your family stay in a harmonious atmosphere.
How to Scientifically Treat Chronic Kidney Disease
It′s a long term ordeal for both patients and their families when someone gets chronic kidney disease, therefore, scientifically loot at it and treat it is the only right way. Patients should pay attention to the following points in thoughts.
1. To be optimistic.
Don′t think too much after getting chronic kidney disease, much pressure will decrease your immunity. Keep optimistic and actively receive treatment, believe your disease could be controlled or even cured.
2. Treat chronic kidney disease seriously.
Some patients is not pessimistic, but they don′t keep doctor′s advices and medication principles in their minds. They don′t seriously treat taking medicines or review and do things according to their wills. This would lead disease which could be controlled to get worse. Therefore, chronic kidney disease patients should not be careless about their own condition.
3. Do things according to your present condition.
After getting chronic kidney disease, patients may receive limitation on activities, diet and work, and even may need others′ care on life, but all these are normal phenomena. Patients should not force themselves to do what they did before. They should do things according to their present conditions to avoid fatigue.
4. To be considerate.
Getting chronic kidney disease, you would bear big mental stress, so do your families. Do not lose temper or get angry with them, otherwise, it would make them anxious or worried. It′s also good for your recovery if you care about your families and make your family stay in a harmonious atmosphere.
How to Prevent the Happening of Diabetic Kidney Disease
Nowadays, the prevalence of diabetes has a rising trend year by year, kidney disease and diabetes as a chronic complication of diabetes is the most main, once happened, sustained urine protein will appear, the disease is irreversible, tend to renal failure, uremia, progressive development. According to data shows, acute renal failure caused by diabetic nephropathy is 17 times higher than those without diabetes.
Although diabetic nephropathy is one of the causes of death in diabetic patients, but it is not the end of all people with diabetes. Therefore, xi 'an tongji hospital senior experts recommend: diabetic patients should be performed early in the prevention, at six to do the following, in order to avoid the occurrence of diabetic nephropathy.
A, strictly controlling blood sugar, and dry weight. Because long-term status and obesity, high blood sugar, this is the most important factor in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy, also is the key to prevention of diabetic nephropathy.
Second, the choice of oral hypoglycemic. As far as possible choose little toxicity to kidney.
Third, insulin therapy. For oral control bad or for patients with renal impairment, should use insulin therapy as early as possible.
Four, combining hypertension take antihypertensive therapy.
Five, the diet. Should control the intake of salt and oil, vegetable oil for 20 ~ 30 ml, and timely supplement vitamin, folic acid, and minerals. Should limit phosphorus intake below 800 mg/day. Protein intake, early didn't limit the amount of protein in diabetic patients, and once in renal failure, falls below 60 ml or urinary protein, should limit the intake of protein, can accentuate otherwise kidney damage. When protein intake should be less than 0.8 g/kg per day, and as far as possible choose low quality protein (fish, meat, eggs), adopts the principle of limit quality diet.
Six, blood glucose and urine protein test on a regular basis, once found that the urine protein, must accept make a diagnosis and give treatment as soon as possible.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
What Factors would Influence the Prognosis of IgA Nephropathy
For patients with IgA Nephropathy, ten-year survival rate is 80% to 90%. 20 years after diagnosis, about 20% to 30% of the kidney patients would enter uremia stage, and 1% to 2% of the kidney patients would enter end-stage renal disease(ESRD).
Many kidney patients would become very scared once they spot gross hematuria, and they would enter uremia eventually. In fact, the severity and frequency of hematuria has no direct relationship with the prognosis of the IgA Nephropathy. In general, the progression of IgA Nephropathy is slow, and this disease is less likely to progress into kidney failure than other types of kidney disease.
With that being said, patients with IgA Nephropathy should take this disease seriously. So patients should visit their doctors on a regular basis, stick with the treatment and do not cut back on medications on their own.
The major factors that influence prognosis of IgA Nephropathy include:
1. the gender of the patient: female patients tend to have better prognosis than male patients.
2. the starting age: on average, the children’s prognosis is better than adults. The prognosis for patients whose starting age is above 40 years old is usually not good.
3. patients whose GFR is already low and who has already kidney damage tend to have gloomy prognosis.
4. patients with less proteinuria tend to have better prognosis.
5. patients with normal blood pressure have better prognosis than patients with high blood pressure.
6. patients with the following pathological changes tend to worse prognosis: diffuse, proliferative glomerular damage with the formation of segmental or diffuse crescent, focal and segmental glomerular hardening or tubular atrophy, hardening arteriola, the thickening of the walls, the interstitial fibrosis and the deposits of IgA and C3.
Preventions of Uremia Induced by IgA Nephropathy
Uremia is the end stage of IgA Nephropathy. Due to neglect on preventions, many patients with IgA Nephropathy progress into uremia gradually, therefore, anyone who is suffering IgA Nephropathy should pay attention to the following inducements which may cause uremia to occur.
1. Cold.
On one hand, patients should prevent the appearance of cold. They can take some exercise, change clothes according to weather variations and avoid appear in public places during flu period. On the other hand, if patients catch a cold accidentally, they should timely visit doctors so as to prevent renal function from damaging.
2. Infection.
Uremia patients are commonly found some infections, such as respiratory infection, digestive tract infection and urinary tract infection etc. Chinese medicine is suggested as the first choice in treating these infections for it has no side effects. If patients are prone to use antibiotics, they should pay attention to its dosage. At the same time, renal toxic drugs should be banned.
3. Obstruction of the urethra.
Urethral calculus or tumor and BPH (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia) can aggravate renal function decline, thus induces uremia. Thus patients should accept treatment, as soon as they find any symptoms of obstruction of the urethra.
4. Renal toxic drugs.
As it has been mentioned above, the dosage of antibiotics which may damage renal function should be under the direction of doctors. The common renal toxic drugs are mainly aminoglycoside antibiotics, such as gentamicin, kanamycin, streptomycin etc. besides, both analgesic-antipyretic drugs and contrast agents belong to renal toxic drugs.
Only all above inducements can be avoided successfully, can patients have opportunities to prevent IgA Nephropathy from uremia. In many patients’ minds, uremia is invitation from death. However, as long as they are treated in right ways and accompanied with careful measures, they also can reduce the renal damage to minimum and live a better life.
Then, how to stop IgA Nephropathy progressing into uremia by treatments?
In fact, the progress from IgA Nephropathy to uremia is a total process of renal fibrosis. To avoid uremia, we should start from the block of this process. Patients should choose the treatment which focuses on blocking renal fibrosis and repairing damaged renal tissue, thus repair renal function. With renal function improving, IgA Nephropathy will slow its steps into uremia.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Renal Insufficiency Diet: how to consume fruits and vegetables and meat
1 how to consume salt intake, renal insufficiencypatients
No matter what kind of kidney disease, as long as there is edema, you have to limit salt intake. Significant edema, while daily limit should be below 1 g, serious or even require salt-free diet. To be reduced the volume of urine protein, edema, relieve, salt can be appropriately increased, but also should be no more than 5 g a day. The purpose of low salt diet is to reduce the water and sodium retention in the body, make the edema subsided and blood pressure to drop.
1 ~ 2 grams of salt per day don't have to put in dish, because in the dish also basically tasteless, to change the way. In the morning can be sweet; Noon to 1 g of salt in dab, dip in with food to eat. Intake in this way, 1, total amount, but it does taste salty, can stimulate appetite. But note that a low salt diet, can't eat pickles, pickled vegetables, preserved szechuan pickle and salty bread, Fried dough sticks, etc, also can't eat laver, rape, spinach, fennel, celery, lily flower, radish, etc.
2 how to consume vegetables, fruit, renal insufficiencypatients
Kidney patients, if generally normal urine output, no less urine and kidney failure, should eat more green vegetables, fruits, in order to supply adequate vitamin. As patients reduced the volume of urine, especially when less than 500 ml per day, is to selectively eat vegetables and fruit. Because potassium compared commonly rich in vegetables, fruits, less urine and kidney disease patients, the serum potassium levels are elevated.
Fruits, vegetables and cereals are foods that are rich in potassium, potassium higher fruit is watermelon, banana, pineapple, mango, jujube, cantaloupe, etc; Have amaranth of potassium is higher in vegetables, spinach, celery, carrots, bamboo shoots, potato and so on. In oliguria stage kidney patients should eat less, if after the use of diuretics, potassium is low, can eat, fresh fruit juices contain rich potassium, in particular, can be used as oral potassium supplement.
Hami melon is rich in potassium, every 100 grams of meat contains about 250 milligrams of potassium. Potassium ion content is exorbitant, can contribute to heart disease, a slow heart beat (bradycardia) and ery low conduction block, such as life threatening. Renal failure, glomerular filtration rate decreased, renal tubular function decreased, the potassium metabolism disorder, not timely excess potassium eduction body outside, result in hyperkalemia. Therefore, patients with renal failure, unfavorable eat hami melon.
3 how to consume meat, renal insufficiencypatients
Renal failure patients, should limit the intake of protein. Because of its some nitrogen metabolism in the body can produce waste, and through the kidney with the urine. Kidney failure (oliguria stage), reduced the volume of urine, impact of waste discharge, the accumulation of waste are prone to uremia. Such as ham, tian chicken, chicken, pigeon, quail and finches meat meat food contain higher protein, both is unfavorable feed more.
Lower Creatinine 68 for Renal Failure Patients in a Natural way
The appearance of high creatinine is very common for patients with Renal Failure. It is because the kidneys can not work normally, then the wastes can not be removed from the blood. The accumulation of much toxic substances can destroy kidneys and other organs and cause a series of symptoms, such as anemia, nausea, vomiting, headache, fatigue and so on. So Renal Failure patients are eager to know the way to lower the high creatinine level.
Creatinine68 is much higher than the normal level of creatinine. More than a half of kidney function has been lost. Our kidneys have very strong compensatory ability, and the creatinine level will not increase until more than 50% of kidney function is lost. If these toxic substances are not be eliminated, more kidney function will be lost. When it declines to a certain degree, patients can only receive a kidney transplant to stay alive.
Dialysis is a very common way to help Renal Failure patients remove the toxic substances from the blood. It can lower the high creatinine obviously. But some patients have to bear the side effects of dialysis, such as low blood pressure, headache, visual disturbance, nausea, vomiting and so on. When the creatinine level becomes higher, dialysis will be used, in that case, the kidney function worsens.
Why not try another treatment we have already introduced to you? And that is Natural Immune Balance Therapy. Natural Immune Balance Therapy is a natural treatment generated from Chinese herbal medicines. It is used externally on the acupoint of kidneys. Some Chinese herbal medicine like Chinese rhubarb, astragalus membranaceus and so on can not only eliminate wastes also improve the immunity of people. The active materials of Chinese herbal medicine will be put into bags, the bags will be put under the kidneys, with the help of osmosis device, Renal Failure patients just need to lie on the bed to take this kind of treatment. It is very comfortable, just likes a massage.
Compared to dialysis, we recommend Renal Failure patients Natural Immune Balance Therapy for its safety and efficiency.
Friday, July 12, 2013
FSGS Causes, Prognosis, Treatment and Prevention
Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is scar tissue that forms in parts of the kidneys' tiny filters called glomeruli. The glomeruli function to help rid the body of unnecessary or harmful substances. Each kidney has thousands of glomeruli.For people with FSGS, their renal functional cells present global sclerosis and fibrosis progressively. Eventually, kidneys will fail to work. Patients have to undergo dialysis and even kidney transplant. Therefore, early treatment to reverse this vicious development is necessary.
Causes of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)
1. The main causes of FSGS include two aspects: the internal kidney reason like reduced immunity and the external kidney reason like antigens of the infection, cold, etc. In case of the decrease of immunity, the pathologic foreign bodies, as some type of antigens, will combined with antibody after invading into human body, and then form immune complex (mainly featured by IgG and C3 deposition).
The special epitopes in the kidneys can attract the immune complexes, so the immune complexes will flow with blood circulation and deposit in the glomerular capillary loops, which gives rise to segmental hyaline degeneration in the epithelial cells of the glomerulus. As a result, the surface of epithelial cells of the glomerulus is desquamation, and inflammatory mediator continues to invade, leading to the damages of epithelial cells barrier function. Proteins in the blood will run into urine, and then get discharged out of body. Meanwhile, after epithelial cells get damaged, they will turn into myofibroblast, resulting in glomerular sclerosis, and start the process of renal fibrosis.
2. Secondary FSGS
* Secondary to viral infections such as HIV, parvovirus, and hepatitis B.
* Massive obesity
* Sickle cell nephropathy
* Congenital cyanotic heart disease
Prognosis
Since idiopathic FSGS is difficult to treat, most patients with FSGS develop to total kidney failure 5~20 years. Some patients with an aggressive form of FSGS reach total kidney failure in 2 to 3 years.
The prognosis of FSGS can be influenced by clinical manifestations, pathological changes of renal tissue and curative effect of treatment.
▪ Clinical manifestations
If patients are accompanied with persistent Nephrotic Syndrome, the survival rate for about 10 years is 45%, while the non Nephrotic Syndrome patients can achieve 90%. The prognosis is bad for patients with severe hyperlipidemia and severe proteinuria.
▪ Pathological changes
If the pathological change of FSGS is accompanied with diffuse mesangial proliferation, obvious arteriolosclerosis, renal tubule interstitial infiltration of inflammatory cells and interstitial fibrosis changes, the prognosis is bad.
▪ Curative effect of treatment
Treatment involving steroids or other immunosuppressive drugs appears to help patients by reducing proteinuria and improve kidney function. But these treatments are beneficial to only a minority of patients in whom they are tried, and some patients may have even poorer kidney function as well as poor prognosis.
Prevention
▪ Have a healthy diet which should be low in sodium and protein. ▪ Avoid stimulating foods and high-fat foods.
▪ Do regular physical activities.
▪ Quit smoking, and drink alcohol moderately.
▪ Reduce the stress in daily life through counseling, doing stress reduction exercises, and meditation.
▪ Take medicine to help control the blood pressure and/or cholesterol levels.
Top Ten Reasons to Love you Kidneys!
1. They are the "HAPPIEST" organ in our body! A smiling kidney is a working kidney.
2. If it wasn't for them, you wouldn't have healthy blood.
3. If it wasn't for them, you wouldn't have healthy bones.
4. They are the "most successful" organ in our body( one might ask why:- born smart, has an objective, can go into pre- renal success all the time and has long term plans set from before)
5. If it wasn't for them, you wouldn't be able to live just on bananas ( some people do)- very well engineered!
6. They are the " most complex" organ in our body( even more than the brain)
7. If it wasn't for them, you wouldn't be able to get rid of your excess water
8. They are the "Smartest" organ in our body
9. If it wasn't for them, you wouldn't be able to get rid of your body's wastes.
10. They are the best "Shaped" organ in our body
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Effective Treatment for IgA Nephropathy
Nowadays, more and more patients are suffering from IgA Nephropathy in the world, and everyone wants to find a very effective method to treat their disease. Therefore, IgA Nephropathy patients should know the general knowledge about this disease, and find a correct treatment method, but what is the effective treatment for IgA nephropathy?
IgA Nephropathy is a kind of disease which refers to immunologic function defect in mucosa.
The aetiological reason of IgA: for patients with immunologic function defect in mucosa, after Getting infection in the upper respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract or Urinary tract, bacterial virus as antigen enter into human body, then the abnormal structure of IgA combined with auto-antibody, thus forming the immune complex of antigen and antibody. Later, these immune complexes deposited in the glomerular capillary loops and mesangial area, which leads to the immune injury of mesangial cells in the glomerular capillary. As a result, after get injury, glomerular capillary lose the barrier function like filtration membrane, red blood discharge out of body with urine because they can’t be blocked the continuous leakage. This is the reason why urine test shows ‘+’. At the same time, mesangial cells will release a serious of inflammatory cells factor after getting injury, these inflammatory cells factor will aggravate the further damage of inflammatory cells, forming vicious circle.
According to the pathogeny of IgA Nephropathy, Our characteristic treatment is Natural Immune Balance Therapy which is based on traditional Chinese medicine.
Natural Immune Balance Therapy has the curative effect for kidney disease, which can treat the kidney disease from root.
(1)Chinese Medicine is abstracted from Chinese herbs, without any side-effect.
(2) With the help of penetrant and osmosis devices, effective Chinese Medicine are penetrated into renal lesion by our own application.
(3)The therapeutic mechanism of this therapy is to block the process of renal fibrosis, dilate blood vessels, promote the blood circulation, repair the damaged renal intrinsic cells, and remove the stasis in channels.
(4) At the same time, Chinese Medicine has the effect like anti-inflammation, anti-coagulation, preventing blood viscosity and degrading extracellular matrixes. The main functions of Chinese Medicine are: block+ repair.
IgA Patients should Avoid Fruits & Vegetables with high potassium
One of the crucial functions of the kidneys is to maintain homeostasis, which means the body′s ability to adjust its internal environment in order to sustain life. So the kidneys can take effect to keep blood pressure, hemoglobin and blood levels of various minerals within healthy range. As IgA develops, the kidneys are less able to filter excessive potassium in the blood. Patients with IgA should avoid fruits and vegetables rich in potassium.
Many vegetable are rich in potassium.
Green leafy vegetables such as broccoli, Swiss chard, mustard green, turnip greens, collard greens, kale, romaine and spinach are rich in potassium.
Beans like lima, pinto, kidney, lentils and green beans are also rich in potassium. Potatoes and cucumbers also contain high potassium, especially then we eat their skin. Other vegetables also include celery, peas, brussel sprouts, beets, asparagus, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage, sweet potatoes, winter and summer squashes, and eggplant.
Many fruits are rich in potassium also.
Fruits that are rich in potassium include bananas, all citrus fruits, cantaloupe, figs, raspberries, strawberries, plums, kiwi, grapes, apricots, tomatoes and nuts.
Some dried fruits contain higher potassium levels than fresh, such as dried apricots, plums and prunes.
The above are some high-potassium content fruits and vegetables that IgA patients should not eat. While having a proper diet of IgA, we need to treat the disease positively with effective treatment. Natural Immune Balance Therapy and stem cell therapy which are both effective treatments are suggested to you.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Could Chinese Herbal Medicine Cure IgA Nephropathy Treatment
Patients with IgA neph(Berger′s Disease) usually take a lot of medications to slow down the further development of illness condition. However, they suffer from many side effects of western medicines. Some patients with IgA Nephropathy try to find a better remedy in Chinese medicine.
Before we seek a treatment for IgA Nephropathy, we need to know its pathogenesis so that we can understand how the treatment works in our body.
Pathogenesis of IgA Nephropathy (Berger′s disease)
In fact, the pathological changes of IgA Nephropathy are caused due to IgA and immune complex deposits in mesangial area of the glomeruli. So renal ischemia and anoxia will appear. Gradually, part of the glomeruli become impaired or scarred, and even sclerosed finally. Glomeruli function as the filtering units of the kidneys and are in charging of cleaning the blood. With scarred glomeruli, big molecules like proteins and red blood cells will spill out into the urine, resulting in proteinuria and hematuria.Metabolic disorders can also appear, so wastes products like BUN, uric acid, creatine, etc will buildup within patient′s body.
A Chinese Herbal Medicine for IgA Nephropathy (Berger′s disease)
Chinese herbs have long been used to treat many diseases in traditional Chinese medicine(TCM), and their curative effects are also significant. However, the decoction tastes bitter and long-term application will also cause digestive ailments.
To overcome the above incompetent sides of traditional Chinese herbs, nephrologists in our hospital create an innovative therapy-Natural Immune Balance Therapy with our own equipment. It is an external application. The Chinese herbs are micronized into granules which can be permeated into lesions directly with the help of modern osmosis technology.
How does Natural Immune Balance Therapy treat IgA Nephropathy?
Natural Immune Balance Therapy can remove the IgA and immune complex deposited in masangial area by improving blood circulation. Then the states of ischemia and anoxia will be remitted, and further damages to the glomeruli can be prevented. Moreover, Chinese herbal medicine can provide abundant micronutrients to repair the impaired or scarred glomeruli as well as improve overall immunity.
Through eliminating the root cause of IgA Nephropathy, Natural Immune Balance Therapy can guarantee a good curative effect.
Patients with IgA Nephropathy Should Pay High Attention on High blood pressure
IgA nephropathy is one of the most common forms of chronic glomerulonephritis in the world. At the time of its recovery, this disease was believed to be a benign disorder. However, what if patients do not pay high attention on its treatment, IgA nephropathy will develop into some kinds of complications, such as high blood pressure, nephrotic syndrome, kidney function failure, and uremia. Therefore, I’d like to make a specific introduction on high blood pressure specially.
As IgA nephropathy progresses, it is common for patients to develop high blood pressure. It is very important to treat high blood pressure by whatever means are necessary, because high blood pressure itself greatly increases the risk of progressing to end-stage renal disease. IgA nephropathy and high blood pressure or high blood pressure affect each other. High blood pressure makes the heart work harder and, over time, can damage blood vessels throughout the body. If the blood vessels in the kidneys are damaged, they may stop removing wastes and extra fluid from the body.
As a result, IgA patients with high blood pressure should take effective measures on controlling blood pressure in order to avoid relapse of IgA nephropathy.
Natural Immune Balance Therapy are effective to treat IgA nephropathy. This therapy contains 8 detailed therapies, such as Classical Prescription,Immune Balance Liquid, Ion Superconducting, Deep Magnetic Wave, Fumigation and Moxibustion Therapy, Injection to Acupuncture Point, Pulsating Therapy, and Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine Application. It is based on traditional Chinese medicine to adjust your internal environment, repair your kidneys and help them to regain their own function.
Monday, July 8, 2013
Natural diets therapy for kidney disease
Kidney disease is not not caused in one day, so it can not be cured in one week just like common cold does. Today we are going to talk about serval kinds of food which is helpful to our treatment.
1. Asparagus Juice:
Asparagus juice is a kind of natural diuretic. Asparagus juice needs to be mixed with carrot juice because the pure and concentrated form may cause strong kidney reactions. It can also control diabetes, the leading cause of kidney disease.
2. Cucumber:
Cucumber is a special kind of natural kidney cleanser. Regular and moderate eating some raw cucumber can help to clean kidneys of acids and toxins. Besides, drinking cucumber juice alone or mixing some cucumber juice to carrot juice is a great natural treatment for kidney problems.
3. Carrot:
Carrot juice is one of the most potent natural treatments to get rid of kidney diseases caused by kidney stones. Drinking half a cup of fresh carrot juice on an empty stomach will, in a large extent, dissolve kidney stones and pass them out of the body though the urine. Carrots has maximum therapeutic effect when it is consumed in an empty stomach. Beside, carrots are also used as natural kidney cleansers to improve elimination.
4. Beet Juice:
Beets are natural cleansers for kidneys, too. Beet juice helps to improve blood circulation and formation of red blood cells, which maintains kidney functions. Consumption of pure beet juice is not advisable. Beet juice should be mixed with carrot juice with a concentration of 1:4. Drinking 1 cup or a little more juice two times a day can reach its maximum effects. Besides, it is also a natural cure for high blood pressure and heart problems.
The above is some natural diets for kidney diseases patients.
Natural Therapy to kidney disease
Natural Therapy is a kind of noninvasive and painless therapy apart from surgical operation, radiotherapy, synthetic drug. Generally, it repairs patients’s damaged kidney by stimulating body's own potentials. It is to adjust the imbalance in the internal environment of the patient's body and it can not be replaced by any drugs. It has sound effects, so patients should not have so much scruple towards natural therapy.
Besides, Chinese medicine believe in “chronic disease causes stasis”, which means patients with chronic kidney disease must have more or less stasis phenomenon, such as gloomy complexion and pain in waist. This stasis phenomenon can be treated with acupuncture and moxibustion or meridian exercise which will improve the swelling and hematuria symptoms. So natural therapy is a method which can resolve the current problems and eliminate the root causes. It has great significance for kidney disease patients.
Recently, kidney patients attach great importance to natural therapy. And it is proved a good method to treat kidney disease. Medicated diet, acupuncture and moxibustion, breathing technique are natural therapy and they belongs to Chinese medicine also. What should we noticed about it?
1. Grasp the meaning of various therapies, and know about indications of the various therapies. We should not use it careless just because it has no side effect. And we should be strictly in accordance with the requirements of treatment.
2. Natural therapy does not depend on drugs. It treats disease by stimulating body's own potentials.So its effect can not show in a very short time. If we choose it, we should insist on. With a long time applying of natural therapy, it will show its supernatural effects.
3. Natural therapy can be used for treatment and it can be used for body building. Even used for those healthy people, it does no harm. On the contrary,, it will prolong people’s life. So patients can insist on it even after being cured.
The above is some items we should noticed about natural therapy. But if we really have kidney disease, only natural therapy is not enough, we should go to standard hospital for examination and treatment.
Saturday, July 6, 2013
How to Distinguish Kidney Swelling From Others?
Kidney is one of the principal organs for our body, whose function is to excrete water. When there is kidney illness, water can not be excreted from our body and this may cause renal swelling. Swelling is the most common symptom of kidney disease and it can be mild or severe: Mild cases have only eyelids or facial swelling in the morning or gaining a little weight. While severe ones have whole body obvious swelling and even hydrothorax, ascites and sometimes gaining dozens of kilograms.
The most common symptom should be pitting swelling: with your fingers press down you will see the emergence of pit.
There are two kind of reasons for renal swelling. One is glomerular filtration declined but renal tubular reabsorption of sodium and water is still good. This situation caused water-sodium retention and it always accompanied by whole body increased capillary permeability at this time. So tissue space has water retention, which is seen in nephritis. Another reason is massive proteinuria cause low plasma protein.
Kidney swelling is whole body swelling caused by primary kidney disease. It is the main manifestation and the important clue for nephritis diagnosis. Kidney swelling can be divided into Nephritis swelling and kidney disease swelling.
Kidney disease swelling is one of the main symptoms of nephrotic syndromes. This kind of swelling starts from lower limbs because of the low protein content of the tissue space.
Nephritis swelling is often seen in acute glomerulonephritis. This kind of swelling starts from eyelids and facial part because the high protein content of the tissue space.
Chronic glomerular inflammation may sometimes together with swelling, because the epibiotic renal unit can compensate in some degree.But it is not so obvious like acute glomerulonephritis. If there is swelling, its pathogenesis must relate to next factors:
① the obvious decrease of normal renal unit make the total area of filtration decreasing obviously.
②continuous renal high blood pressure accentuated the burden of left heart, and severe cases may lead to heart failure
③Hypoproteinemia caused by long period proteinuria
Will Climate Influence your PKD condition?
Climate has showed different characteristics at all seasons: warm spring, hot summer, dry autumn and cold winter, which is called the regular pattern of climate. In our daily life, people’s adaptive capacity towards natural climate differs from each other. For those who suffers from kidney disease, including PKD, they are sensitive to climate changes because their own physique condition.
For the PKD patients and renal cyst patients, because their kidney undergo fibrosis lesions, which make their kidney a special physiological and pathological human body function of viscera, they are very sensitive to climatic changes.
Noinclude has said “The kidney disease attacks in winter, and heals in spring. If the patient did not healed in spring, the disease will aggravate in the long summer; and if he or she survived from summer, it lasts in autumn, and attacks in winter again.” These words sufficiently explains traditional Chinese medical science have studied about the influence of climate changes on kidney disease.
Everything develops in spring, which is good for patient’s recovery. But spring is windy and patients suffers from wind-evil easily. In the hot and damp summer, patients suffers from fire-evil and damp evil easily. In autumn, patients should take care themselves and protect their renal Yin ( yin and yang ,the two opposing principles in nature ) not to be hurt by the its dryness. And winter is too cold for patients to protect their Yang.
As for clinic, the hottest and coldest period are the two periods when PKD patients are easily to have bad changes of their state of illness. When the climate is too hot, it usually merges a variety of infections like urinary tract infection, intestinal infection, upper respiratory infection (URI) etc., which will influence the development of PKD directly or indirectly. When the climate is too cold, the PKD patients, especially those who are in the third or forth period and those who have poor immunity, are easy to catch a cold. Thus, it aggravates their kidney disease and influences their blood pressure (BP). So, for PKD patients, spring and autumn are the appropriate time to have treatment, which can reduce the bad influence caused by summer and winter.
Besides, at all seasons there are epidemic diseases. Kidney patients should take more care about themselves, prevent the infection, and not catch cold, reducing the probability of kidney damage.
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